Injury Prevention Research Center

Last September, the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (UI IPRC) gathered over 30 stakeholders from over a dozen fields across Iowa to discuss actions to reduce drug overdoses in the state. Their top five recommendations are highlighted in a new report.

Read about a unique database linking data to help give Iowa a more complete picture of homicides and suicides in the state.

Being refunded helps us keep doing the hard work of making the world safer. We are grateful for our many partners and colleagues who help make it all happen. Here are some of our other highlights in 2019.

When firefighters assist with an older adult fall in a home or check on an older adult, they are often on the front lines of older adult falls prevention. This is why Julie Popelka, a firefighter and public education specialist for the Cedar Rapids (IA) Fire Department, is championing the effort to get fire service…

Iowa has 30 years of child passenger safety data to look back on thanks to the annual Child Passenger Safety Study funded by the Governor’s Traffic Safety Bureau (GTSB) within the Iowa Department of Public Safety.

The University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center (UI IPRC) trains the next generation of the leaders in injury and violence prevention.  As one of the only injury centers in the Midwest funded by the National Center for injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we take pride in the…

Read our Q & A with UI Associate Professor Mark Berg about his research in violence & trauma and what motivates him.

Motorcycle-involved crashes accounted for a little less than 2% of all crashes on Iowa roads each year from 2014 – 2018. However this percentage is high, said State Safety Engineer Jan Laaser-Webb at the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT), considering motorcycle use represents a very small portion of the traveling public in Iowa. “Even…

Last January Dr. Thomas Granchi, an acute care surgeon at the University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) burn treatment center, appeared on the local news warning of the dangers of burns arising from social media challenges.  This past winter, his team saw burn injuries in two teenagers from the “salt & ice challenge.” This dangerous…

Every winter the UI IPRC announces the availability of pilot funding through the center’s pilot grant program it has sponsored since 1993.  This small “seed” funding gives opportunities to young investigators and investigators new to the injury field, and supports exploring new areas of injury and violence research. Often, these projects lead to larger studies…